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Speaker 1: What's up? Everyone? Welcome into another episode of the Official

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Speaker 1: Cults Podcast, presented by Win las Vegas. I'm jj S

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Speaker 1: Tankowitz in for Jeffrey Gorman in the hot seat this

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Speaker 1: week with Lara Overton. Got a lot to get to

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Speaker 1: any of those services, thank you for spending your Boxing

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Speaker 2: Oh you so celebrate there you go.

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Speaker 1: And I still actually never figured out what Boxing Day is.

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Speaker 1: I just know they celebrate in England.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean theoretically, yeah, Christmas Day was great, by

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Speaker 2: They get it.

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Speaker 3: Every the NBA gets it every year, though the NFL

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Speaker 2: Yeahs so frustrating because you look and there were to.

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Speaker 1: a sudden.

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Speaker 2: Oh, huge, huge part of the offense. So yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: one thing.

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Speaker 3: Colts will have a walk through on Wednesday, as they

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Speaker 3: on that, right Jjay.

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Speaker 1: We are that will come out after the conclusion of

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen, those games, which I don't know if we're

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Speaker 1: on New Year's Eve for the Packers and Vikings game

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Speaker 1: to end. But yeah, that'll be interesting because the NFL

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Speaker 1: might say, if that game isolated is like a winning

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Speaker 1: in for both teams, that's going to get Saturday four

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Speaker 1: thirty eight fifteen or Sunday Night football. But if that game,

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Speaker 1: if the winner of that game's playoff positioning is dependent

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Speaker 1: might want those games being played at the same time.

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Speaker 2: So no one has an advantage of knowing the outcome

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Speaker 2: of one of the other games.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see about that. Also, some late breaking news

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Speaker 1: here as we are wrapping up recording. Julian Blackman is

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Speaker 1: the shoulder injury he sustained against the Falcons, so I

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Speaker 1: guess technically he is not if the Colts were to

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Speaker 1: make let's see, got a miss four games, So if

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Speaker 1: the Colts were to make the AFC Championship, he could return.

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Speaker 1: That would be the first time he'd be eligible to recur.

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Speaker 3: Sure. I'll tell you from where I was standing on

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Speaker 3: I saw Julian make the hit, and it what's kind

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Speaker 3: of awkward how he came into it, how he came

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Speaker 3: Blackman has been an absolute iron man because prior to

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Speaker 3: probably like every defensive snap the entire season. And he

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Speaker 3: was obviously down on the field for a while, a

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Speaker 2: That he finally got.

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Speaker 3: Up, he was immediately he was flexing and contracting his hand,

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Speaker 3: you know, trying to clutch his fist do all that.

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Speaker 3: So it's almost seemed like that he was trying to

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Speaker 3: get either feeling or movement, you know, into that lower part.

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Speaker 2: Of his arms. So very interesting right there.

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Speaker 3: So unfortunate for Julian because prior to you know, he

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Speaker 3: battled through injuries at the end of college, he had

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Speaker 3: that torn achilles from two years ago, right.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to do the mat that was the one

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Speaker 1: he had in practice, yes years ago. Yeah. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: then last year he was he was healthy last year healthy.

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Speaker 2: Last year, and he was had contract year. He's had

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Speaker 2: such he's had such a great year.

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Speaker 3: Such an unfortunate outcome for Julian. You hate that also,

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Speaker 3: just one.

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Speaker 2: Of the greatest dudes, like yeah, in general in that

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Speaker 2: locker room. So hate that for him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Nick Cross has had some big shoes

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Speaker 3: to fill at various points this season. He has not

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Speaker 3: only been you know, special team's ace, but the times

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Speaker 3: he's coming on defense, he is you know, proving to

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Speaker 3: be the guy who the Colts wanted him to be,

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Speaker 3: or being closer to the level of expectation that the

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Speaker 3: Colts saw when he was drafted last year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, this is now a big spot for

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Speaker 1: Nick Cross and for Rodney Thomas the second as well.

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Speaker 1: Those guys are gonna be counted on on the back end,

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Speaker 1: a back end that's already pretty young. Now you even

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Speaker 1: get younger with without Julian Black there back there. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough, but you got

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Speaker 1: to be up for the challenge. And this is what

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Speaker 1: late season football looks like. Every team's dealing with something,

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Speaker 1: and the Colts have certainly dealt with a lot. And

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Speaker 1: this is just another thing.

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Speaker 3: Face another backup quarterback this week and Aidan O'Connell, yep,

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Speaker 3: produce his own.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well here we go one buckle up,

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Speaker 1: buckle up. I mean, this is gonna be a fun

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Speaker 1: next couple of days. We're gonna have plenty of stuff

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Speaker 1: on Colts dot com, Colts three sixty, you know, getting

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Speaker 1: you ready for the Raiders, getting you ready for playoffs scenarios.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a viewing guide up because I keep

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Speaker 1: getting all these questions Laia of like, well, who should

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Speaker 1: have root for in this game? Who should root for

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Speaker 1: in that game? So I'm just gonna list that all

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Speaker 1: out on Colts dot com later this week. What games matter,

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Speaker 1: what results you need? And then hopefully the Colts can

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Speaker 1: get some good fortune as well as a win on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: That's you know, all I want for my final you know,

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Speaker 3: my final ask is twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Colts win to close out the year.

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Speaker 1: That'd be great, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, and look at close out the year, not the season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the season continues.

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Speaker 1: Well, we at least of one more game. Let's hope

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Speaker 1: we play a little deeper into January. Let's do it

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Speaker 1: all right. Well, thank you for watching us here on

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Speaker 1: the Official Colts Podcast presented by Win Las Vegas. If

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Speaker 1: you are watching on YouTube, if you're listening, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for listening to us here. Matt Taylor will

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Speaker 1: be back with Thursday's edition of the Official Colts Podcast.

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Speaker 1: That'll be with Bill Brooks, Casey Value, and a player

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Speaker 1: guest previewing Cults and Raiders. So long, MHM